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 * ... that unlike modern Sassafras, which are deciduous, the extinct species Sassafras hesperia (fossil pictured) may have been evergreen?
 * ...that William King Gregory, a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition, was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
 * ... that this month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the main Burgess Shale locality?
 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus conisquamis is noted for having a nipple-shaped spine?
 * ... that despite heavy European and other influences, Mexican pottery and ceramics still retain indigenous elements?
 * ... that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule?
 * ... that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record?
 * ... that the discovery of the fossil giant ant Titanomyrma (pictured with a hummingbird) in Wyoming indicates that warmth-loving fauna spread through the north between Europe and America during hot spells in the Eocene?
 * ... that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia, Guatemala, was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations?
 * ...that Pachycheilosuchus, an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative, was less than a meter (3.3 ft) long and had an armored neck?